looking for a book

Rodney J. Decker rdecker at bbc.edu
Tue May 9 08:43:13 EDT 2000


 >Does anybody know of a book that gives Greek words and their corresponding
 >English derivatives? I have often thought that such a book surely must exist
 >but have not stumbled upon it just yet.  It would certainly be handy and
 >useful.

In addition to the items listed, you might also note an older work:

Horace Addison Hoffman, *Everyday Greek: Greek Words in English, Including 
Scientific Terms* (Univ./Chicago, 1919).

I assume that people using this approach realize the dangers of it: some 
words do have a transparent etymology, but others are either not 
transparent or the meaning deduced from it are either outright wrong or 
anachronistic (e.g., relating DUNAMIS and dynamite).

Rod



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